OUT-DOOR COOKERY 61 



'' We'll see before we get home/' said Dodo ; " we 

 always do/' 



Next Olive filled the tea-kettle from a pail of water 

 Nez brought from a spring on the hill above the cabin, 

 and hung it on the crossbar over the fire. 



'^ I know what that stick is for, anyway," said Nat. 



''I've fixed sticks like that to hold a kettle, and I've 

 roasted chestnuts and potatoes in hot ashes," said Rap ; 

 *•' but I can't tliink Avhat those two logs are for, and 

 why they are fixed wider apart at one end than at 

 the other." 



'' That is easily explained," said Mr. Blake, begin- 

 ning to untie his packages of groceries. " You see 

 the bottom of the coffee-pot is smaller than the tin 

 kettle, and the frying-pan is larger than either. Now, 

 if we set tlie coffee-pot on the narrow end, it fits nicely, 

 but the kettle would not get enough heat, so that 

 stands wliere the logs are wider apart, and the frying- 

 pan further along ; and if we wanted to cook some- 

 tliing in a wire broiler, it could go at the very end. 

 Isn't this lc)g stove a great invention ? " 



'' Y-e-s," said the children ; " but what are you go- 

 ing to cook ? " 



" Roast the potatoes in the ashes, boil the coffee, 

 fry the ham and eggs in this pan, tie strings to the 

 stems of these apples and hang them on the rod by 

 the tea-kettle. 



'^ AYe will Ijegin with the potatoes and apples," said 

 Mr. Blake, ''for they take the longest to cook. How 

 is it for game about here, Nez ? I brought my gun, 

 thinking I might get a few Quail ; but it's taken us 

 so long to come up that tliere is not time." 



